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by yuliyp 5y ago
A road race involves people traveling over dozens of kilometers, with many spectators lining the streets. There are so many ways a spectator can signal something to a rider in code (color of hat, waving or not waving a flag / choosing
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by yuliyp 5y ago
They do reveal how many fake accounts they think they have. From Facebook's 2020 Annual Report ( https://investor.fb.com/financials/sec-filings-details/defau... page 4): > In the fourth quarter of 2020, we
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by yuliyp 5y ago
I don't think this makes much sense. The maximum throughput of a CPU in terms of instructions depends on so many factors (thermal, memory, instruction mix) that trying to summarize all of them into a linearly-scaling "utilization&
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The restaurant is free to raise the menu price to compensate for a larger fee.
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This doesn't actually do anything meaningful. It changes the proportion of the fees that are visible to the consumer, but the fees will still be there. They'll show up as regulatory fees or just service fees. At the end of the day
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by yuliyp 5y ago
What is a faulty machine? How do you find one? Some of the failures experienced happened with specific data and workloads assigned to specific cores of specific machines. How do you identify software bugs vs hardware issues? Given a suspect
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At some point the total life duration cost of the safety actions exceeds the sum of the extended lives due to the safety actions. In the 5 billion hours example, 10 people live for under 10 million hours in total (1 million hours = 114 year
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by yuliyp 5y ago
I think this type of pricing aligns incentives better than what Tesla is doing. With Tesla's model, if you don't get what you expected out of the self driving features, sorry, but they already have your money. With VW, they'r
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by yuliyp 5y ago
Disputing charges with a credit card is an interesting thing. It's a consumer being able to unilaterally say "give me my money back" and the merchant basically being stuck with the tab. Doing a chargeback means the relationsh
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by yuliyp 5y ago
Yes, I've also noticed that the cost of small items has gone up significantly. Amazon passing shipping costs and fees onto sellers explains this finally.
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Back then AP didn't publish things on their own. They just sent it out ("dispatched it") to subscribing newspapers.
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So in case you get mismatches, you can then have a bunch of humans figure out what happened and how to recover from it, and if necessary, involve a court system to settle disputes based on the evidence that exists. This type of human resolu
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by yuliyp 5y ago
They do for some things. In many places whenever you transfer ownership of real estate, you submit a piece of paper that says "I am transferring ownership of X to Y" to a clerk/recorder/registrar. People can then go and
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by yuliyp 5y ago
Companies can issue stock (whether through employee grants or secondary offerings). They can also buy other companies with stock.
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The rate of mutation is significantly lower in humans than in say viruses. Being able to adapt eventually to changing circumstances is valuable.
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Some apps use it reasonably: they'll remember if you said no, but do want to provide more messaging around why they're asking.
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Use the overall distribution of generation sources for the electric grid?
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If you see them as a scam you're welcome to not use them. There are still colo facilities out there, and if you don't want to use that there are ISPs that will let you connect to the Internet.
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by yuliyp 6y ago
It's not just a number. It's a string of characters conveying information about a measured value. The way it's specified conveys information about the number of significant figures ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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Inflation is a tax on money (so yes, savers). It's not a tax on labor, nor is it a tax on productive assets. Normally speaking, compensation changes with inflation
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Or you can encapsulate it so that the API layer doesn't need to worry about the crypto format.
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What would be the point? Of course people can miss things in code review. Yet the Linux developer base and user base has decided that generally an open submission policy has benefits that outweigh the risks. Should every city park with a &q
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by yuliyp 6y ago
Sadly that's exactly their reasoning: "The Peloton Tread+ is safe for use at home when operated as directed and in accordance with our warnings and safety instructions"
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It's still on the same power grid. The renewable energy would have been used one way or another. It's still contributing to the burning of fossil fuels on the grid.
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To some extent, yes, it's people choosing to do that. Just like people choose to eat sweets. If you keep people in an environment where there are always sights and smells of sweets, they'll probably end up eating more. Obviously y
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by yuliyp 6y ago
I think technology is changing which kinds of gossip get spread. It used to be either things you heard directly from the people in your circle, or on tv / newspapers / magazines. Now it's algorithmically determined to be the
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Different people have different ways of learning and working. Some people build a bunch of stuff. Others build toys, others may just focus on their primary jobs and don't have a portfolio of things they can share.
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> the only reason to make such a requirement is that we want to use main memory as a mechanism to communicate between cores. For a very liberal definition of "communicate" that statement is true. The only reason for multiple th
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by yuliyp 6y ago
Sorry about that. I didn't think about the overflow effects. Alas I can't edit the post now.
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